US7301152B2 - Lightweight planar detector for objects contaminated with particle radiation - Google Patents
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JP2001311777A (en) | 2000-05-01 | 2001-11-09 | Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Inst States Of Projects | Thin radiation surface contamination detector |
US20020172478A1 (en) * | 2001-05-21 | 2002-11-21 | Sahlin Jennifer Joyce | Light transmission techniques |
US6512231B1 (en) | 1997-05-23 | 2003-01-28 | Thomson Tubes Electroniques | Device for measuring exposure of a solid-state image detector subjected to ionising radiation and image detector equipped with such a measuring device |
US20040238749A1 (en) | 2001-03-15 | 2004-12-02 | Jean-Marc Fontbonne | Method for measuring a dose of irradiation with a beam of ionizing radiation capable of creating cherenkov radiation |
US20040251417A1 (en) | 2003-06-11 | 2004-12-16 | Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. | Multi-anode type photomultiplier tube and radiation detector |
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JPH0424582A (en) | 1990-05-18 | 1992-01-28 | Toshiba Corp | Measuring apparatus of radiation |
US5391878A (en) | 1993-11-03 | 1995-02-21 | Rockwell International Corporation | Multiplexed fiber readout of scintillator arrays |
EP0740167A1 (en) | 1995-04-27 | 1996-10-30 | Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha | Radiation detector and method of detecting radiation |
US5780856A (en) * | 1995-04-27 | 1998-07-14 | Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha | Radiation detector and method of detecting radiation |
JPH09243752A (en) | 1996-03-07 | 1997-09-19 | Toshiba Corp | Optical fiber type large area radiation monitor |
US6512231B1 (en) | 1997-05-23 | 2003-01-28 | Thomson Tubes Electroniques | Device for measuring exposure of a solid-state image detector subjected to ionising radiation and image detector equipped with such a measuring device |
JPH1144768A (en) | 1997-07-25 | 1999-02-16 | Toshiba Corp | Radiation detector and radiation monitor using the same |
JP2001311777A (en) | 2000-05-01 | 2001-11-09 | Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Inst States Of Projects | Thin radiation surface contamination detector |
US20040238749A1 (en) | 2001-03-15 | 2004-12-02 | Jean-Marc Fontbonne | Method for measuring a dose of irradiation with a beam of ionizing radiation capable of creating cherenkov radiation |
US20020172478A1 (en) * | 2001-05-21 | 2002-11-21 | Sahlin Jennifer Joyce | Light transmission techniques |
US20040251417A1 (en) | 2003-06-11 | 2004-12-16 | Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. | Multi-anode type photomultiplier tube and radiation detector |
US20050189495A1 (en) * | 2004-02-26 | 2005-09-01 | Yasuhisa Ito | Radioactivity measuring apparatus using optical fiber |
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M.L. Crow, J.P. Hodges, R.G. Cooper; Shifting scintillator prototype large pixel wavelength-shifting fiber detector for the POWGEN3 powder diffractometer; Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A529 (2004); pp. 287-292. |
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